The panel is charged by the United Nations with reviewing research to create periodic reports on climate risks, documents that are often used by governments to guide decisions, and its every conclusion is being dissected under a microscope.
Several of the recent accusations have proved to be half-truths:
The Times must be concerned...
How about his own country which has virtually declared climate change hysteria to be a scam?
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For a man who only made $49,000, he sure lives in a big mansion in New Delhi.
His long stint with the Gov owned railways in India probably supplied a lot of money for his”retirement fund”.
The NYT overlooks these facts and gives him a pass on his conflict of interest and accumulated wealth.
ClimateGate has been an international scandal since November...NY Times’ readers are only first learning of it in today’s NY Times.
Just as the NY Times spiked the news of Senator Kerry’s lies of Vietnam combat (Christmas in Cambodia!), only to find Kerry Swiftboated out of White House contention...so too has the NY Times attempted to spike the ClimateGate story.
The NY Times has a long, sordid History of spiking news that it doesn’t like, such as knowing about Monica Lewinsky yet not reporting Clinton’s affair, knowing of Stalin’s mass murders of Ukrainians yet not publicizing the carnage, knowing of Dan Rather’s falsehoods of Bush’s National Guard service, etc.
However, this puts the NYTimes behind the curve. They haven’t been able to spin ClimateGate because they haven’t allowed anyone in the paper to comment on the story.
And thusly, the NYTimes will lose yet again.
It’s interesting to watch the NYT tiptoe around the obvious. The fact is that the Himalayan glaciers thing was a complete crock and any reasonable person can see it. It’s not just a “some critics are saying” kind of thing. In fact it wouldn’t be terribly improper for the scientists responsible to jump out of windows in shame. But we only know this because the British papers and the blogosphere are telling it like it is.